Public and Private Financing of Higher Education: Shaping Public Policy for the Future

2000 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 632-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Gibbs
2000 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 632
Author(s):  
Annette Gibbs ◽  
Patrick M. Callan ◽  
Joni E. Finney ◽  
Kathy Reeves Bracco ◽  
William R. Doyle

2015 ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Jane Knight

International Education Hubs require major investments to attract and retain local and international higher education institutions, training organizations, students, research and development centres, and knowledge industries. This article examines the role of public and private financing from local and foreign investors in establishing countries such as Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia as education hubs.


Author(s):  
Estelle James

During the 1950s and 1960s American higher education underwent a major change in size and structure, with a vast expansion in enrollments and increased emphasis on graduate training and research, relative to undergraduate teaching. This chapter explores the implications of this changing product mix for our understanding of costs, subsidies, financing methods, and decision-making structures in higher education. We ask the following questions: . . . 1. How did universities finance their production of graduate training and research (G and R), which usually do not bring in enough revenues to cover their costs? 2. What differences, if any, were there in the behavior of public and private universities regarding the shift toward G and R? 3. How did this change in product mix affect relative costs in universities versus two- and four-year colleges, which still specialize in undergraduate teaching? 4. What are the implications of this analysis for our understanding of the costs and benefits of education and for future public policy? For example, to what degree do state legislators and private donors control the product mix in higher education and who ultimately gains from the resources they provide?. . . Specifically, I characterize universities as multiproduct nonprofit organizations (NPOs) engaging in the teaching of undergraduates as a profitable activity, in order to subsidize graduate training and research, which are loss-making but yield direct utility to them. Cross-subsidization by NPOs, then, is an alternative to direct government funding of socially beneficial goods such as research, under certain circumstances. With certain differences that we shall note, this characterization applies to public and private institutions, and the term NPO is used for both in this chapter. At private universities, during the 1950s and 1960s, profits were generated mainly by huge tuition increases, made possible by rapidly rising demand, as we shall see below. State universities, too, engaged in cross-subsidization to finance G and R. However, since state universities often do not control or retain tuition revenue, their main device was a decrease in teaching cost per student.


2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 274-277

Robert K. Toutkoushian of University of Georgia reviews “The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities,” by Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the future of US higher education, focusing on public and private nonprofit institutions, and outlines how the higher-education system's stresses and challenges arose and how they may affect the diverse set of institutions that make up the higher-education system.”


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 334
Author(s):  
Wagner Pires da Silva ◽  
Erlene Pereira Barbosa

A partir do primeiro governo Lula iniciou-se uma política pública de expansão da Educação Superior, com ampliação de vagas e criação de novas universidades e campi em regiões que tinham pouca presença de instituições desse nível de ensino. Essa expansão efetuou-se tanto por meio de instituições públicas, quanto por privadas, evidenciando-se dois modelos de educação superior, um notadamente mercantilista, e o outro, mesmo com suas contradições e recebendo pressões externas para que se aproxime mais do outro modelo, que se volta ao serviço à sociedade brasileira. Este trabalho procura registrar este momento da Universidade Brasileira, tomando por base o sul do Ceará, onde está instalada a Universidade Federal do Cariri, instituição criada por essa política de expansão. O trabalho fundamentou-se em uma revisão bibliográfica sobre o tema e na coleta de dados quantitativos do território. Sobre o material coletado foi realizada uma abordagem na perspectiva crítica, embasado na teoria marxista, para apontar as contradições dessa expansão e os pontos positivos da mesma. Os resultados do estudo apontam para a necessidade de um modelo diferenciado de Ensino Superior, que responda as demandas do Semiárido, embora o sistema capitalista exerça cada vez maior pressão para que o Ensino Superior se padronize de acordo com o projeto do capital para o território.Palavras-chave: Educação Superior. Políticas públicas. Financiamento. Fundo público.Expansion of higher education for the semiarid: a necessaryABSTRACTFrom the first Lula government onwards, a public policy of expansion of Higher Education began, with expansion of vacancies, creation of new universities and campuses in regions that had little presence of institutions of this level of education. This expansion took place both through public and private institutions, with two models of higher education, one notably mercantilist, and the other, even with its contradictions and receiving external pressures to get closer to the other model, which returns to service to Brazilian society. This work seeks to record this moment of the Brazilian University, based on the south of Ceará, where the Federal University of Cariri is located, an institution created by this expansion policy. The work was based on a literature review on the topic, and the collection of quantitative data from the territory. A critical approach was taken on the material collected, based on the Marxist theory, to point out the contradictions of this expansion and the positive points of it. The results of the study point to the need for a differentiated model of Higher Education, which responds to the demands of the Semiarid Region, although the capitalist system exerts increasing pressure for Higher Education to standardize according to the capital project for the territory.Keywords: Higher Education. Public policy. Financing. Public background.Expansión de la enseñanza superior para el semiárido: Un debate necesarioRESUMENDesde el primer gobierno Lula se inició una política pública de expansión de la Enseñanza Superior, con la ampliación de plazas, creación de nuevas universidades y campi en regiones donde había poca presencia de instituciones de dicho nivel de enseñanza. Esta expansión se efectuó tanto por medio de instituciones públicas como por privadas, evidenciándose dos modelos de enseñanza superior, uno especialmente mercantilista mientras que el otro con sus contradicciones y recibiendo presiones externas para que se acerque más del otro modelo se vuelve al servicio de la sociedad brasileña. Este trabajo busca registrar este momento de la Universidad Brasileña, tomando por base el sur de Ceará, donde está ubicada la Universidad Federal do Cariri, institución creada por dicha política de expansión. Basándose en una revisión bibliográfica sobre el tema y la recogida de datos cuantitativos del territorio. Sobre el material recogido fue realizado un abordaje en la perspectiva crítica, basado en la teoría marxista, para señalar las contradicciones de dicha expansión y sus puntos positivos. Los resultados del estudio evidencian la necesidad de un modelo diferenciado de Enseñanza Superior, que conteste a las demandas del Semiárido, aunque el sistema capitalista ejerza cada vez mayor presión para que la Enseñanza Superior se estandarice de acuerdo con el proyecto del capital para el territorio.Palabras clave: Enseñanza Superior. Políticas públicas. Financiación. Fondo público.


2016 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Dorota Moroń

Policy towards the higher education financing in PolandThe article provides an analysis of the issue related to public and private financing of higher education in Poland. The arguments for the systems of public, private, or mixed financing of studies are compared here with the European models of financing higher education. This paper analyses the Polish system of financing education in the context of both legal bases and the reality in the operation of higher education institutions. The analysis indicates that the system of financing public higher education is in fact dual, i.e. it consists of paid studies and tuition free studies. The fact that almost half of the students pay for their education triggers a question whether education is really free and whether everyone has equal access to education. The analysis of the costs incurred by the students and the possibilities to gain financial support indicates a significant percentage of private expenditures in financing higher education.The mixed system of financing higher education in Poland and the existence of public and non-public higher schools prove that the entities providing higher education services as well as the flows of funds for higher schools are diversified. Thus, the citizens can use public education services but often they are obliged to pay for the service.


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